spots on prints

If I understand your question right... You'll get white spots/lines on prints from anything on or in your neg that is opaque. Dust and fibers settling on the neg are the common culprits causing white spots and squiggles. Use a soft brush or blower just before printing to eliminate most of these. Don't blow with your breath because you'll almost always blow some spit onto the neg, creating a worse problem. Straight lines are almost always scratches on the negative itself. There are goopy solutions that you can put on the neg to "fill in" these scratches that some people use. I don't like putting anything foreign on my negs and don't use this stuff. For any white spots/lines that are in your final prints, you can use SpoTone and a very fine brush (000 to 00000) to to hide them. See varous printing books for descriptions of techniques (e.g., A. Adams, The Print). With some practice it's not very hard.

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